Columbus, OH police officer fatally shoots 15 year old Black girl

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It's tough to criticize a split-second decision, but it would have been better for the officer to follow President Biden's suggestion to shoot in the leg.

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It's tough to criticize a split-second decision, but it would have been better for the officer to follow President Biden's suggestion to shoot in the leg.

That was an ignorant comment from Biden and wouldn't be applicable in this case. Even an Olympic sharpshooter would have difficulty hitting a leg on a moving person in the split second time available like in that video. That's a movie trope, not a realistic thing.

I agree this is not a great case to make a stand over, but her backside/thighs are as big of a target as her chest in that video.

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It's tough to criticize a split-second decision, but it would have been better for the officer to follow President Biden's suggestion to shoot in the leg.

That was an ignorant comment from Biden and wouldn't be applicable in this case. Even an Olympic sharpshooter would have difficulty hitting a leg on a moving person in the split second time available like in that video. That's a movie trope, not a realistic thing.

I agree this is not a great case to make a stand over, but her backside/thighs are as big of a target as her chest in that video.

Dude.

What? Someone would have to be quite unusually proportioned for their non-lethal areas to be a smaller target than their heart area.

There's nothing wrong with a policy of "try to shoot non-lethally" as long as people take into consideration that that's not always possible, especially in a split-seconds-matter context.